Police found stashed heroin hidden in the axle of a truck's trailer in Westchester County on Thursday.U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New York Division

Investigators busted two men attempting to ship drugs to the city this week when they found 65 pounds of heroin – at a wholesale value of $2.3 million – hidden in the axle of a truck’s trailer, officials said Thursday.

Fernando Quiles and Jorge Ayala

The pair had intended to sell the heroin – which would have yielded more than half a million individual doses – to distributors in New York City, Long Island and across the northeast, according to officials.

Fernando Quiles, 47, and Jorge Ayala, 33, were arrested on Tuesday near a large single-family home on a private wooded lot in Croton-on-Hudson in Westchester County that they had rented as a spot to park their tractor trailer and stash drugs.

Officials say Quiles allegedly received tractor-trailer shipments of the drugs from an organization in Mexico. The shipments were transported over the Texas border into the New York City area, and Quiles coordinate with Ayala to distribute them, according to officials.

Investigators tapped an Aug. 13 phone call between the duo in which Quiles – who was in New York City at the time – told Ayala that he needed a place to park a trailer “for at least one day,” officials said.

In another call a week later, Quiles allegedly told an associate that a narcotics shipment was on its way and he would “take it out on Tuesday and take it to its destination…in case it has a tail somewhere.”

And on Tuesday, the pair spoke to a truck driver on the phone, directing him to the Croton-on-Hudson stash house.

When investigators arrived, they saw the trailer – detached from the rest of the truck – on the property.

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) New York Division

Ayala tried to make a getaway in his car, but investigators stopped him, officials said.

They found plastic sealing equipment, plastic packaging materials, keys, a garage opener for the stash house and a device to open the trailer inside the car.

Quiles was arrested near the trailer.

A search of the stash house – which was empty and unfurnished – found a narcotics ledger book, tools, a scale and packaging materials.

Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration brought the trailer to a Tarrytown facility, where they cut open the axle and found the stash of heroin inside.

Quiles, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Ayala, of Greenwich, Ct., were hit with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminally using drug paraphernalia and conspiracy charges. Both were arraigned Wednesday night in Manhattan Criminal Court and held without bail.